Summer 2018

OTS Newsbrief • SUMMER 2018 • 5778 Up Close and Personal After nearly two decades of successfully placing hundreds of educators and rabbis in communities, campuses, pulpits and schools around the world, OTS emissary training programs added a new dimension...
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OTS Newsbrief • SUMMER 2018 • 5778 Up Close and Personal After nearly two decades of successfully placing hundreds of educators and rabbis in communities, campuses, pulpits and schools around the world, OTS emissary training programs added a new dimension to its training: a field trip abroad. F or the first time since opening its doors to rabbis and educators 19 years ago, OTS’s emissary-training programs arranged a visit abroad to see Diaspora communities up close, to learn from their leaders and members, challenges and successes. Called “Back to the Future,” the trip set out to introduce students from the Joseph and Gwendolyn Straus Rabbinical Seminary’s Straus-Amiel Program for Rabbinical Emissaries, the Ethel and Adolph Beren Educator Institute’s Beren-Amiel Program for Educational Emissaries, and the Claudia Cohen Women Educators Institute to the rejuvenating communities of Poland, where alumni of all three programs are making a huge impact. “In recent years, we’ve been expanding
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